Unions at the agency that oversees communist era secret police files and
other documents have written to the minister of finance, Andrej Babiš, in
connection with the planned layoff of around a fifth of its staff,
Novinky.cz reported on Saturday. Representatives of three of the five
unions at the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes asked the
minister to halt steps taken by its management, saying they were
financially unsound. The redundancies are due to come into effect in April.